History of Orange County, California : with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with its earliest growth and development from the early days to the present . edin the schools of his native country and serving his allotted term of enlistment in thearmy, Mr. Wessler determined to seek a land that offered more freedom and greateropportunity, so the year 1873 saw him on his way to the United States. For five years after his arrival he worked in a machine shop at Philadelphia,Pa,, having started to learn the trade in Bresen, then removed to Linc
History of Orange County, California : with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with its earliest growth and development from the early days to the present . edin the schools of his native country and serving his allotted term of enlistment in thearmy, Mr. Wessler determined to seek a land that offered more freedom and greateropportunity, so the year 1873 saw him on his way to the United States. For five years after his arrival he worked in a machine shop at Philadelphia,Pa,, having started to learn the trade in Bresen, then removed to Lincoln County,Kans., where he purchased 160 acres of railroad land, later buying another tract of160 acres of school land near Wilson, Kans. Mr. Wessler raised cattle and grainon his Kansas farms and liecame well-known in the agricultural life of that community,where he continued until 1897. Coming to California that year he spent two years inPasadena, locating at Anaheim in 1899. Purchasing twelve acres on the Garden Grove road west of Anaheim, set to work to improve it, and it now is a thriving citrus orchard. Sixacres of it are in seven-year Valencia oranges, while the balance of the trees are. HISTORY OF ORANGE COUNTY 1073 three years old. Mr. Wessler has been unusually successful in developing his prop-erty, and he still does practically all the work of caring for it, having now elevenacres. In 1919 he erected a beautiful residence on his ranch and here with his familyhe resides in cornfort. In May. 1879, at Wilson, Kans., Mr. Wessler was married to Miss Amy Babcock,the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Morgan Babcock. She was a native of Missouri, whereher father was extensively engaged in the cattle business, the family later living inIllinois and Nebraska before their removal to Kansas. Four children were bornto Mr. and Mrs. Wessler: Mabel is Mrs. H. D. Meyer and resides at Pasadena; shehas five children; Grace; Verne; Erse is Mrs. Albert C. Meyer, and makes her homein S
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